Professor Meléndez will be in residence at Esterházy Károly College in Eger from August through December, 2014. In Hungary, Meléndez will teach, lecture and continue his research on how notions of legitimacy and illegitimacy for Latinos are transferred to general audiences through film.

American Studies graduate student Emily Cammack traveled to Cuba and met with members of Proyecto Espiral, a grassroots community group whose volunteer members work to develop ecological, social, and cultural sustainability within the city.

This one-day symposium honored the life and work of John Redhouse by gathering activists and scholars engaged in Indigenous rights and environmental and social justice organizing in Indian Country and beyond.

Our graduate program gives students the opportunity to develop an interdisciplinary approach to their specific areas of interest, and receive training in a broad range of historical, literary, visual, and ethnographic theory and methods.

The New Mexico Musical Heritage Project is a unique studio and classroom environment where students learn both the art of playing and the craft of making violins. The shop acts within New Mexico's rich cultural and historical contexts.

Community leaders came together to create Protect and Serve ABQ, designed as a collaborative effort of local community-based organizations who shared a desire to end police violence in Albuquerque. Prof. David Correia spoke at the TEDxABQSalon event.

Department of American Studies

The Department of American Studies was the first Department to offer the PhD at the University of New Mexico. The Department promotes critically-engaged innovative academic research and teaching, and is a vital center for recruitment of diverse undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty.

American Studies is a formal academic discipline that began more than seventy years ago as the United States was undergoing a series of crises over the meaning of the nation. Then, as now, American Studies has posed critical questions to Americans about the meaning of the United States in a global society. UNM's program, one of the first four American Studies programs in the nation, remains a dynamic place of critical inquiry, as well as a leading resource for scholarly explorations of the Southwest and New Mexico in particular.

Foremost, among the American Studies Department’s many areas of distinction in research and teaching are:

Transnationalism, Globalization, and Colonialism

Critical Regionalism and Southwest Studies

Critical Race and Class Studies

Environment, Science and Technology Studies

Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies

Comparative Cultural and Popular Culture Studies.

Students have the opportunity to develop an interdisciplinary approach to their specific areas of interest, and receive training in a broad range of historical, literary, visual, and ethnographic theory and methods.